Cocktail of the Week ?
I think it is getting time to shift gears a bit here. We need to move on to cocktails. I’m thinking every week or maybe two hitting a new cocktail and possibly some of each’s variations.
Before I do that let me take a moment to review the bourbon. I’ve settled on Maker’s Mark. Surprisingly I actually have reasons for this. I think Woodford Reserve is certainly a superior bourbon. I mean that stuff is really good. It is pricey though. If I were drinking bourbon neat or on the rocks regularly I’d probably go with the Woodford Reserve. For cocktails I’m going to have to go with the Maker’s Mark. They’re very close (to me) and the price difference (again, for me) is enough to put Maker’s Mark into the lead.
Now, Knob Creek. I’ve got to say, Knob Creek is not bad and some of the better bourbons I’ve tried. But ultimately I think it is overrated. And I say this currently buzzed on a double Knob Creek Manhattan. It is possible that the higher proof is just beyond my tongue limits (Knob Creek is 100 proof). For taste, Woodford Reserve far exceeds Knob Creek. If Knob Creek’s cost was closer to Maker’s Mark this review might be a bit different but with Knob Creek being the more expensive, it just simply isn’t worth the dollars.
So … cocktails.
Manhattan
Martini
Old Fashioned
Tom Collins
Sidecar
to catch the classics. If there are classics that I missed please mention them in the comments. From there we should probably catch the classic rum cocktails:
Mai Tai
Cuba Libre
Mojito
while I’m not a fan of blended cocktails…
Pina Colada
We will also need to head into Tequila-land but I think we’ve already got enough with the classics to keep us busy drunk.
Now, I know LC Aggie Sith will be on board with this, but I’d like as many fellow drunks as possible to join us on this.
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FUCK YEAH!!
Count me way in
How about the Highball, and the Metropolitan?
Harvey Wallbanger? Gin & Tonic?
Bloody Mary? White Russian?
As to rum cocktails, what about the Daiquiri, and Long Island Ice Tea? And the Hurricane? And The Zombie (heh!)?
That’s why I love you.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
To think, I don’t indulge that much, but it is fun to do the whole cocktail thing. It’s an art, IMO.
Every time I see the word “cocktail” I wonder about its etymology (though not enough to look it up). Did the term come about when someone was drunk enough to swish a rooster’s ass in his swill?
Perspiring minds wanna know (but don’t care enough to look it up, of course).
BTW, the list looks like a good start. Happy mixing!
Ahhh, well, there is a story I know about the word “cocktail”…
During the Revolutionary War, there was a tavern in NY that was popular with both Revolutionary and French troops. As they drank late into the evening, sometimes they would mix what they had left in their glasses with others, Revolutionaries prefering harder liquor, and French preferring sweeter liquor. Sometime during the war, the tavernkeep cooked a capon, or rooster for the troops, and used the rooster’s feathers in the drinks he served with it. And so, the men toasted to the meal, “Vive le Coc’s tail” and so the drinks were christened.
I heard the Revolutionary War story as well but who knows where ‘cocktail’ comes from. It seems to be one of those things lost to history.
The Morris Dictionary relates that “cock” referred to a tap and that the cock’s tail were the dregs at the end of a barrel as it ran out. The anecdote goes that, on one occasion, a patron invented a mixed drink, a Ganymede, rather than drinking this residue.
“Dictionary of Word Origins” by John Ayto (Arcade Publishing, New York, 1990): “The origins of the word ‘cocktail’ are mysterious. It first appeared (in America)in the first decade of the 19th century, roughly contemporary with ‘cocktail’ meaning ‘horse with a cocked tail’ — that is, one cut short and so made to stick up like a cock’s tail — but whether the two words are connected, and if so, how the drink came to be named after such a horse, are not at all clear.”
So … there’s that, i guess.
Well, at least it was a rooster and not a beaver
*sigh* And I was perfectly happy with my picture of a cock’s tail as a drink “swisher”… (because it’s ridiculous, of course)